Good afternoon readers,
Sorry for the long delay in posting, i've been sorting some stuff out lately including looking at moving into my own place so yeah, yay me :)
however, its a slow day at work at the moment so i figured i'd have a go at this and post up since i've been absent for a while.
This is the image that Level 2 gives us and as you can gather, since the previous level was solved via looking at the hex, its not going to work for this one so where we start today, is by googling - steganography techniques for images and we look on the holy grail of sites for information.
Wikipedia. I know what your all thinking, Beth! What are you doing, wikipedia is full of people who add stuff for kicks. This is true readers, however, wikipedia is also a well referenced place if you look at the bottom on the page, if you use it properly, its awesome.
So using wikipedia, we see that digital messages is a subject in it so that seems like a good place to start, what say you.
if you click on the image above, you'll be able to see it more clearly.
So the first option suggests that the text may be the same color as the background, to check that out, i'm opening the steg image in GIMP (an image program)
You can see the options on the top bar and going through them, colour seems to be the most promising, so i'm gonna try messing with the colour balance first and see if that does anything.
Just mess around sliding them back and forth to see if anything comes up, (it doesn't as i've found but were here for the experience of it).
Next we're gonna try the option below it, hue saturation. Again the same principle, just mess around and see if anything comes up.
As you can see, saturation gets you nowhere other than turning your lettering grey.
So next we try lightness and in which we have a winner. Although the left hand of the scale does nothing useful for us, the right hand does and it lights up light Christmas as you can see.
This is pretty damn cool considering absolutely nothing showed up at the beginning. This just goes to show that Wikipedia is useful and playing around doesnt hurt either.
Thats all for now folks because you know, i'm at work and theres only so far you can go.
Toodles!
